The Labor Government was attacked in the House of Commons today by former Prime Minister Churchill for keeping more troops in Palestine than in India.
British policy in Palestine and India is incomprehensible if viewed together ,he said. He pointed out that while British troops are to be evacuated from India within fourteen months, no time limit has been set for taking the troops out of Palestine where, he emphasized, Britain “has no real interest.”
Commenting on the proposal of U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie that a Palestine committee be established which would make recommendations to the General Assembly, Dr. Nahum Goldmann today stated that the Jewish Agency would welcome the formation of such a committee, if it will help to expedite the solution of the Palestine problem. He added that the Agency is prepared to collect facts and documents for presentation to the Assembly.
“If the committee proposed by Lie will be created, the Agency looks forward to an opportunity to place the Jewish case before it,” Dr. Goldmann said. “However, if the committee is merely a further delaying move resulting only in still another investigatory trip to Palestine, then the Jewish Agency sees no need for it.”
British expenditures in Palestine over the last two years totalled 328 million dollars, all for military costs, Chancellor of the exchequer Sir Hugh Dalton disclosed today.
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